No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.